stingrayPete1977

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1346449765' post='1789531'] That sucks big time. Seems to me they are not worth your time. Good luck dealing with this! That said, you [b]are[/b] overweight and badly need a litte Genz-Benz amp and two Barefaced cabs. best, bert [/quote] brilliant, my combined gear and bass body mass index is pretty good, more pies please!

There's plenty of big people in music, just not bullshit pop music. Pavarotti and meat loaf were not waifs and the big guy in bowling for soup should if anything be a role model to show people you can be the cool one in the band too! I'm not slim but would more likely of been kicked out for being a sh*t player instead! If they have gone along with it I'd say your best off out of it before it goes tits up?

I have never heard of a band that went on to do any good after being treacherous like this. If a label had asked me to kick a member out for being fat I'd of walked out of the meeting!

I am reading brown eyed girl at the moment, it's got some trickier bits and it's taking me a while but it's fun. The riff comes in on the and of 3, I have started to read across the bars and just play the notes at the rhythms I see , did I see you say that was ok somewhere before Doddy, more akin to just sight reading the notes? Ta Funny thing is I can already play it well enough for a dep wedding gig in a couple of weeks time, it's purely for my sadistic pleasure!

That book helped me a lot, I got it after you suggested it in another thread. Got a bit tired of playing E though I'm getting there slowly, in the same way the notes mostly come without thinking now I have had a few little auto pilot moments where the rhythms just went to plan without thinking.

That's no good

All the damage I have collected on my gear has been done by me usually doing something normal at the time, once I had a bass fall off the bed whilst I was trying to photograph it for insurance purposes!

Could be a duff jack socket too, if it does not contact fully it wont turn the pre amp on.

Them Jamerson lines are tough, thats before you worry about feel and dynamics etc!

Here is the game, I just got 1.18 'bass clef wizard' on my first go in ages but I have been doing a bit of reading fairly recently [url="http://www.studybass.com/tools/bass-clef-notes/"]http://www.studybass.com/tools/bass-clef-notes/[/url] I do have photo evidence of a 1.0 dead 'great wizard' though

Double check that 'new' battery too, sometimes they are flat before you even open the packet! Or sometimes I have left a bass plugged in and flattened it that way, not for many years now though.

[quote name='BRANCINI' timestamp='1346430014' post='1789189'] Sounds like a deal to me, especially if they will let you store gear there as well. Had a similar deal with The Tardebigge out by Bromsgrove in the late 70s. I think they went off the idea when they realised we were a 'new wave rock n roll band' and not a covers band doing Tie a Yellow Ribbon They kept their side though, even though we rehearsed 3 times a week, I dont think we ever got round to doing the free gigs come to think of it. [/quote] I dont think any of us will be leaving gear there, maybe the kit if we practice on a thursday night before one of the free friday night gigs although if we did buy a medium sized pa between us the option of keeping it there might be worth looking at, the function room is upstairs and the people live on the floor above so its very secure. We could take all the leads and the mixer away then chain the cabs together by the handles which would stop anyone else using them and the chances of anyone carrying them down the stairs would be nil then too, Hhmmm food for thought

I dont think there will be much of a written contract anyway Dr Dave, if we dwindle off practicing there then they wont hold us to it. The landlord knows the score too and we might never get past the practice stage, you know how it is! 50 pints was a good deal

Get the Frodis bass clef app, it's really good! Check out the bass clef yts thread on here that crops up from time to time, it has some good links and advice, bass clef wizard game is fun but be warned its addictive!!!!! I'm a great wizard myself under 1 second per clip average, took me f***ing ages

I'm not sure a shuttle would do the job as well as a Streamliner? I prefer the shuttle but then I don't really like Ampegs! As for vintage basses, I'm sure they have something extra, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. A 15lb Fender is no fun for a 2 hour wedding set for example! On the other hand I'm yet to try an EBMM Ray that's as good as my pre EB one

I won't leave any gear there Jose, it's not worth it plus I can carry my 1x12, bag and an SR5 in one go

That's a great idea Chrismanbass! Pa for practice will be no problem Lozz, just one of those little Peavey fold out jobs will be enough for that, little cocktail drum kit, small guitar amp and me with a 1x12. We have between us enough bigger gear to do upto maybe a village hall/medium sized pub anything bigger will either need a hired one (£150 with a sound engineer if local) or we buy our own between us at a later date.

The pub will be fairly flexible on the gig dates I'm sure and a couple of gigs there will be handy to get us started anyway. I'm glad the pa thing is up front too, it's often the bug bear! They (guitarist and singer couple) have a decent vocal pa for small gigs and we can hire one for bigger ones at a reasonable price, I'm not keen on clogging up my garage with speakers.

We are just getting a fresh band together, pub set and wedding set yet to decide and learn but we have all been around the block so started by having a meeting without instruments first to discuss it all, pa situation undecided but at least out in the open right from the start, practice venue was discussed and we have got a function room above a pub right in the middle of us all every Thursday night for as long as we want as long as we do three free gigs a year for them? I think that's a fair deal, what do you lot think?

DJ and a band for £300 sounds more than fair to me, the 'paid practice' is a slippery slope into getting feck all for the rest of your playing days and just makes other bands reasonable prices look steep IMO.

I wanted to go and try it but we are booking a holiday in the next few days so I cant find a way of getting it past the other half looks real nice!

Awesome and jelous!

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1346274268' post='1787466'] [size=6][sup]I've heard the NEOX range is good......even though I am not convinced about NEO..for some strange reason.[/sup][/size] [/quote] Maybe that's why then

Yes I have a GB Neox T 1x12 too, I need to try two of the front ported ones next to my Neox T 2x12 to be certain I guess.